Charles Williston McAlpin

CHARLES W McALPIN Morristown Capitalist Born in Now York City son of David H McAlpln Charles W McAlpin is one of the heirs of David H McAlpin who was one of the largest manufacturers of tobacco in the United States and a liberal patron of the arts and has succeeded to the care and management of many of the business enterprises in which his father was engaged when he died in 1901 The elder Mr McAlpin started u retail cigar business in Catherine Street New York City in l836 and was afterwards engaged in the manufacture of chewing tobacco on Avenue D and Sixth Street From these beginnings the business grew to a magnitude that commanded the markets of the civilized world David H McAlpin was a director of the Union Theological Seminary from 1872 to 1901 and munificent endowments for the Seminary were among his other beneficences A notable contribution to the Seminary is a collection of British History and Theology embracing 10,000 titles some bearing date before 1700 He was a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art a Fellow in Perpetuity and in this state a Director of the First National Bank of Morristown His estate Brook lawn on the old Walker farm at Littleton acquired in 1866 and his later estate Glen Alpin at Hoyts Corner four miles from Morristown have long been among the garden places of that exclusive region <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=vVQDAAAAYAAJ&dq=charles%20w%20mcal...">Scannell's New Jersey First Citizens Biographies and Portraits of the Notable Living Men and Women of New Jersey with Informing Glimpses Into the State's History and Affairs By William Edgar Sackett, John James Scannell</a>

Charles Williston McAlpin, Princeton 1888, was the secretary of Princeton University from 1901 to 1914. He was a member of the board of managers of the Presbyterian Hospital of New York, and a friend of President Woodrow Wilson. He was married to Sara Carter Pyle in 1892. (Charles W. M'Alpin Dies At Home Here. New York Times, Feb. 3, 1942.)

Charles Williston McAlpin (1865–1942) was a member of a prominent family involved in the industrial and social development of New York City in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. A graduate of Princeton University, he was elected first secretary of that institution in 1900, a post he held until 1917. During his retirement he devoted much of his time to philanthropic activities and to his favorite pastime, “collecting engraved portraits of Washington.” At the time of his death McAlpin had assembled one of the most complete collections of Washington portraits in the country.

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• https://glenalpin.org/history/david-hunter-mcalpin-1885-1940/ (inherited from his father)
  • "Charles McAlpin inherited the Glen Alpin house from his father in 1901. Shortly afterward, he began renovations on the house and commissioned Daniel W. Langton to design the gardens around it."
  • "In 1933, Charles McAlpin donated 124 acres of the original Glen Alpin property (including the 1779-80 encampment site of the Connecticut Brigades) to the United States government to help create a national park. The land was located in the Jockey Hollow section of the park. The Morristown National Historical Park became the third historic park added to the National Park Service and was the first to be given the title National Historical Park."